tunnels

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When mining operations shut down after roughly 80 years, they left behind more than empty tunnels.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

That is lower than estimates from 2019 of 85,379, but higher than 2005, when a manual count estimated 72,540 went through the tunnels.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

There are more wind tunnels in the area than in France and Germany put together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

County’s population, are largely excluded from the region’s most consequential planning decisions regarding infrastructure projects like transit lines and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield